"Beauty and the geek. Caroline as the geek and Kol as the popular jock. Kol and his buddies play a cruel prank on her by asking her out... Kol then falls for Caroline as he gets to know her.. and then graduation day comes and Caroline finds out about the prank, and turns him into a vampire as revenge but then they end up happily ever after." –Guest

Caroline is a bamf. All hail the queen.

She wasn't that tragic appearance-wise. She was pretty hot when you think about it. But she firmly had a stick up her arse and she seemed to have it in her head that she was better than everyone in Mystic Falls. The Forbes bird had transferred to their school in the earlier part of the semester all snootiness and sitting in the corner like a bloody loner. Aside from her penchant of fighting with Tanner about historic events, she was a bleeding wallflower.

Normally, he'd just ignore her and be on his way. There were a dozen other pretty girls who were more interested and more willingly to let him have his way with them. Caroline Forbes was not worth the effort trying to coax her out of the perfect little bubble she lived in and nobody was allowed to enter. She'd shot down cruelly every boy who'd tried to ask her out and there was no way he was putting his pride through that.

That was until Tyler Lockwood dared him to get into her knickers by graduation and he wasn't backing down to that prat. Jeremy, nice bloke, that he was tried to talk him out of it but his mind was set and his pride was unforgiving. So after lunch he sauntered up to where Forbes was at her locker and tried to chat her up. She was just a bird, anti-social like no one else, but still a bird.

"Hello, lovely," He leaned against the locker beside hers as she seemed to almost sigh like this was a regular routine for them and she was sick of it already. Could've have that. "What are you doing tonight?"

"Studying." Abrupt and cold. Like the bloody Alaska.

"Great. Me too. Why don't we study together?" He gave her one of his disarming grins. The ones that even made the school principal let him off a suspension. "I'll be good. I promise."

She suddenly paused for a minute before finally looking at him from underneath her lashes, her lips forming into the sexiest smile he's ever seen. "What if I don't want you to be?"

"Even better." He leaned closer to her as she handed him a pen and he wrote his address on the pale skin of her arm. It was surprisingly cold. He could fix that. "I'll be waiting with bated breath."

She gave a sultry little giggle and he'd be lying if he didn't say it went straight to his head.

He practically sprinted down the stairs to get the door. He'd planned everything out. His parents were both out of town on business trips and the only siblings still living with them was Rebekah and Henrik. Fortunately, Rebekah had a project to work on with Elena Gilbert much to her annoyance and would gone for most of the night and he'd given Henrik money to go bugger off for a few hours.

He opened the door, trying to look less eager than he was and he felt all the blood rush down from his head as he saw Caroline dressed in a form fitting black dress. He must've done something fantastic in a past life and he was thanking all the heavenly bodies right then.

"Hi," She told him, smirking as he was at a loss for words.

"Hi," He was able to finally reply. "Come…come in, please."

She sauntered past him and looked around his house. It was the largest in town and she seemed to admire the opulence of it all before turning to him, gaze unmistakable. "Where's your room?"

Kol woke up dazed, having vague recollections of the previous night. Sitting up, his hand immediately went to his neck but found nothing there, just smooth, flawless skin. Caroline was nowhere to be seen. The only evidence she was still there was when he found her number programmed into his phone later.

He immediately sought her out when he got to school. Déjà vu almost overcoming him as he went up to her and greeted her. "Hey, darling." He said. "Didn't see you this morning?"

"I didn't want to go to school in last night's clothes." She shrugged. "Did I break your heart?"

"I'm not that fragile." He moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. "We had fun last night, didn't we?"

"Don't you remember?" She gave him a look. "Was I that forgetful?"

"it's all just a bit foggy." He narrowed his eyes as he kept trying to recall something but couldn't grasp it. "Did we drink we last night before…?"

"Before the incredible sex, you mean?" She rolled her eyes. "You wanted to drink a bit first and then got a bit carried away."

He felt relieved at hearing that and when she wrapped herself around him more closely, her lips at his neck, leaving icy little kisses that wrecked him with little shivers, he nearly lost himself.

"Don't worry." She whispered in his ear. "You were wonderful."

"I thought she was just a bet to you," Jeremy phrased it like a question during gym. They were running laps and the sun kept getting into his eyes and making him wince.

"She was…and then I got to know her." He shrugged, not really wanting to talk about this.

"So you guys aren't just -what's the word you use?- shagging each other's brains out anymore?"

"Yeah," He turned around to shove Jeremy playfully. "I like her."

Jeremy shoved him back, harder. "You're whipped."

He just grinned and ran faster, so Jeremy would be forced to try and beat him. "Blow me, tosser!"

"You first, shithead!"

Kol was feeling more tired than usual and he didn't know what it was. The schoolwork wasn't the horrific but he guessed all the shite about college and the quickly arriving future was taking a toll on him. Others were handling it better than others and others like him seemed to have the energy sucked right out of them. He was practically falling asleep at his locker when hands suddenly covered his eyes.

He smiled as he pushed the hands away and turned around to see his girlfriend, smiling brightly at him. "Caroline," He said her name with affection and pulled her in for a kiss.

He usually would have stopped kissing her for the teachers practically giving him the death glare but since he was graduating, he thought the hell with it and continued kissing Caroline until she was soft and willing in his arms. She was the one to pull away but gave him sweet little pecks as she talked. "Your house tonight? One last time before we graduate from this hell hole?"

"Wouldn't miss it for the world."

They never went to her place. And he never asked.

"Heard you got Forbes without trying that hard," Tyler greeted him in the parking lot as he was heading home. "And now, it's like really serious?"

"Hello to you too, Lockwood." He turned to look at the jock. "And to think, tomorrow it's going to be 'Goodbye Lockwood' forever. I have waited for this time to come for so long."

The other bloke rolled his eyes. "Funny, Mikaelson."

Kol just gave him a shrug and went to unlock his car.

"So, you and Forbes…" Tyler continued. "It's for real?"

He considered telling Tyler to just bugger off and never bother him with his presence again. But graduation was tomorrow anyway and he'd probably never see Tyler again for a long while. So he just answered him honestly. "Yeah, it's real."

"You didn't just win the bet." Tyler shrugged. "You won the girl."

"Why'd you dare me to ask her out? Out of everyone?"

"You're fearless," The Lockwood boy replied as he began to step away. "And she's kinda scary."

Yeah, she is, he silently agreed. "See you around, dick."

"Nice knowing you, asshole."

He arrived at his house and found nobody home. Nothing new, after all. He found as he went up to his room that Caroline was already there. Having given her a kick to the backdoor, this was no surprise as well.

"Caroline," He walked closer to her as she was facing the window in his room, watching the darkening scenery outside. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her nape. Her shoulder blades rising and falling with each slow breath she took. "I missed you."

"It's only been a couple of hours." She told him quietly.

"Still missed you." He murmured into her skin.

She laughed lightly and turned around in his arms so she can cup his face. He stared into her lovely blue eyes and was enraptured. "What if I told you, you never had to miss me ever again? That there was a way we could be together forever?"

His hand went to her soft, blonde hair. "Alright. But first, I need to tell you something."

Her eyebrows furrowed in question but as she asked him to continue.

"I originally asked you out because Tyler Lockwood dared me to." He explained to her sheepishly. "I was supposed to just get in your knickers and dump you but the thing is, Caroline, you're brilliant and there's no one in this world I'd rather be with than you."

Her smile was back and she was tracing his face with her fingers, from his eyebrows down to his lips. "I know."

He looked at her in shock. "You knew? About the bet?"

She nodded. "I was going to get my revenge on you that first night…but then you were so beautiful and it'd be a pity to destroy a beautiful thing."

He blinked in confusion as she stared into his eyes and a familiar cloudiness overcame his thoughts. "Which is why I decided to keep you. You're mine now, forever."

She kissed him and he tasted rust in his mouth before she snapped his neck and the world went black.

He woke with a start, every part of his body aching but most especially his neck. He was somewhere unfamiliar, lying on a bed with violet sheets. He sat up and noticed the ring on his finger, a blue stone like the one Caroline wore…

He swore as bits and pieces of memory assaulted his senses, moving too fast for him to grasp and he ended up lying back down on the bed, trying to assuage a pounding headache.

"Oh good, you're awake." Caroline closed the door behind her and practically skipped cheerily towards him. She took a seat on the bed and took something out of her purse and he realized it was a blood bag. She tore the tab off lightly and handed it to him, expecting him to actually take it. "Drink up."

He wanted to say no, disgust the proper emotion for such an action but an unfamiliar hunger unlike anything he'd ever felt overcame him and he found himself practically snatching the blood bag from her, drinking his fill of blood like a starved beast.

Her fingers were flowing through the top of his head, at his hair, her sweet little hums almost soothing to him. "After you're done, we need to make an appearance at graduation. Need to appease all those little humans after all. And then you need to say goodbye to your family and get your things. New York is quite a drive away so…

"Why are we going to New York?' He asked, finally able to stop drinking down all that blood.

"It's the city that never sleeps," She leaned down and around his lips. "And we're vampires, Kol."

Vampire.

The word seemed so foreign and yet familiar.

Teeth on his neck, blood in his mouth.

Vampire.

"Now, get dressed, sweetheart," She mimicked him. "We've got a busy day."